"...........Conservative Labor Reforms
This transformation of the union movement should make government labor reforms a top conservative priority. Government unions are a powerful institutional force opposed to limiting the size and scope of government. They make top conservative (and politically popular) priorities—from tax relief to school choice—very difficult to enact. Creating them was a mistake that states should rectify.
Several states—such as Virginia and North Carolina—never permitted collective bargaining in government. States that did should return to this example.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did this in 2011. He signed legislation eliminating the power of unions to bargain over government benefits and work rules, and strictly limited bargaining over wages. This enabled Walker to transform a $3.6 billion budget shortfall into a surplus and $2 billion in tax cuts. Savings came not just from cutting government pay, but also from operating more efficiently.
Wisconsin school districts, for example, saved tens of millions of dollars through lower health insurance premiums. Previously, the Wisconsin Education Association (WEA) had required school districts to buy health insurance through WEA Trust, a union-backed insurance provider. Once school districts were allowed to shop around, they got lower rates.
Similarly, Wisconsin unions can no longer force their work rules on the state or local governments. The seniority system that forced Milwaukee Public Schools to fire Megan Sampson a week after naming her their “Outstanding First Year Teacher” has now become optional.
Unions threatened to end Scott Walker’s political career for taking them on. They failed miserably. Walker won a union-backed recall election handily. He won his regular re-election bid by almost the exact margin he first won in 2010. Walker’s reforms cost him no political support.
Exit polls in 2014 showed that Walker won the political argument over the role of unions in government. Wisconsin voters view government unions unfavorably by a 52–44 percent margin................"
Unions are an issue of the past. Now they are nothing but deadweight around a business, and a community. look at all the municipalities that are stuck with what the unions have done unfunded liabilities. The reason Obama is attacking Walker is because Walker did somehing in Wisconsin and other states lik Michigan did is change froma Union state o a Right to Work. giving the workers the right to choose whether o be part of a union or not. For Example in Michigan the SEIU wanted to unionize homecare providers to be able to get in on the perceived gravy train of the need for the aging population to have more and more care providers pay union dues for providing homecare. I know in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan it was unrealistic for even the SEIU to even venture into the counties. There was one idiot whom did an he was ran out the county immediately. The local county I live in has seen apopulation decline - and less money is available for county services, bt the county desires o live high off the hog so to speak because the union stewards show up for the various DPW employees, county employees, police union. It has become a joke with the Sheriffs department Union, the local police departments unions and the DPWs unions - all want more for the employees to get their fair share when other issues need to be adressed. Michigan’s biggest problem is roads are virtually a nightmare. The other is employment opportunities virtually non existant. obama probably wants more money for the union stooges to be able to pay off the union voters to get what yet another useless Democrat o the preswidency. Next will be Obama’s Organizing America will endorse yet another Obama crony and stal more union money o promote yet another idealistic idealogy
So when did the GOP take over the LA City Government?
From last month: Unions Demand Special Treatment After Minimum Wage Hike They Backed Goes Into Effect
someone needs to rip him .... as being an anti-American traitor and willing 5th column for Iranian/Islamic world domination
Boy: You can't treat the working man this way. One day we'll form a union and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve. Then we'll go too far, and get corrupt and shiftless and the Japanese will eat us alive!
We are well into the “corrupt and shiftless” phase
Obama is such a joke. The rich have gotten richer under him, the poor have gotten poorer, and the middle class has gotten poorer. He is the most anti-middle class president in the history of the nation.
Of course, most of the GOP will just take it instead of ripping Obama for being anti-job creation.
Of course, most of the GOP will just take it instead of ripping Obama for being anti-job creation.
Obama rips GOP candidates as anti-union
50 years ago that might have been a bad thing ripping a union. Nowadays the unions are little more then cash machines for the Democrat Political party.
Union dues become donations to the Democratic party.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS (and aerospace workers), 1980 - 1985.
American Federation of Government Employees, 1986 - 1994.
I do agree that public sector unions at any level, are a pariah, and need to be abolished. That includes that quicksand called police unions.
Are the two secret trade pacts negotiated by Obama considered pro union?
“Anti-union?” That’s a label I would not only wear proudly but would actually brag about!
“Hogwash”.......Obama is the most hateful and destructive enemy of USA industial labor unions. He has destroyed millions of high paying “Blue Collar” jobs!!! if there is one blue collar union member that votes for Clinton, Biden, Sanders...you are either high on reefer, stoned drunk, or, just totally insane!!!
Remember the XL Oil Pipeline!!!
Another day of riling up a special interest group.
Divided we fall... it’s been known for a long time.
Anti-union, or anti FORCED union?
“President Obama: If Tom Brady Needs A Union, We All Do”
And your point here is what, Obama? That cheaters who get caught and who destroy evidence need unions to help bail them out after breaking the rules?
That’s ok Obungo,you are Anti American